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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	wonder_n	world_n	youth_n	35	3	7.6309	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03326	The first parte of the Mirour for magistrates containing the falles of the first infortunate princes of this lande: from the comming of Brute to the incarnation of our sauiour and redemer Iesu Christe.	Higgins, John, fl. 1570-1602.	1574 (1574)	STC 13443; ESTC S106149	67,530	161

country well If some be pleasde and easde I lease no toyle At carpers gyrdle hanges not all the keyes VVhat price gaines he that giues him fall or foyle VVhich neuer wan by vvrastling any prayse I haue not spent in poetrye my dayes Some other workes in proase I printed haue And more I write for which I ley sure saue And for mineage not thirty yeares hath past No style so rype can yonger yeares ataine For of them all but onlye ten the last To learne the tongues and vvrite I toke the paine If I thereby receyued any gaine By Frenche or Latine chiefely which I chose These fiue yeares past by writing I disclose Of which the first two yeares I Grammer taught The other twaine I Huloets worke enlargde The last translated Aldus phrases fraught VVith eloquence and toke of Terence charge At Printers hand to adde the flowers at large VVhich wanted there in Vdalles worke before And vvrote this booke with other diuers more Then pardon what 's amisse a while giue eare So shall you heare the rest that I recite Describing next what Princes did apeare VVhen I had ended these are past to write In slomber as I chaunst to lye one night VVas Somnus prest whom I desyrde to sende His Morpheus ay de these Tragedies to ende VVherewith he graunted my request and calde For Morpheus straight which knew wherto he came I will quoth he the rest whom Fortune thralde Of Britaynes shewe thy selfe to heare them frame And therewithall he fet forth one like Fame In fethers all with winges so finely dight As t were a birde in humane shape of flight Yet t was not Fame that femme of painted plume He rather seemed Icarus deceaude 〈◊〉 winges to flye nighe Phoebus did presume At length in deede I plainly well perceaude It was some kinge of vitall breath bereaude From flight he fell presuming farre to hye Giue eare take heede and learne not so to flye Bladud recyteth howe he Practisinge by curious arts to flye fell and brake his necke The yeare before Christe 844 SHall I rehearse like wise my name And eke a place amongste them fill Which at their endes to mischiefe came Sith Morpheus bids mee so I will. And that because I see the minde To write my storye fate and fall Such curious heads it reade and finde May fly to flee and shunne my thrall If daunger teach them liue take heede If leesers harme make lookers wyse If warines do safetye breede Or wracke make sailers shelues dispise Then may my hurt giue sample sure My losse of life may lokers learne My warning may beware procure To such as daunger scarce discerne I am that Bladud Britaine kinge Rudhudebras his eldest sonne Did learning first to England bring And other wonders more were done Now giue me eare and after wryte Marke well my life example take Cschue the euill that I recyre And of my death a myrrour make In youth I gaue my mynde to lore For I in learning tooke repaste No earthly pleasure likce me more I went to Athens at the laste A towne in Greece whose fame went foorth Through all the world hir name was spred I counted knowledge so much woorth Hir only loue to Greece me led There first of all the artes of seuen Wherein before I had small skill I Grammer gate declares the stenen By rule to speake and wryte at will. Next after that in Rhetoricke fine Which teacheth how the talke to fyle I gate some knowledge in short tyme And could perswade within a whyle I thirdly learned Logicke well An arte that teacheth to dispute To aunswere wisely or refell Distinguishe proue disproue confute Then after that of nomber I The skilfull arte likwyse attainde Wherin of Mathematickes lye Full many pointes I after gainde And Musicke milde I lernde that teltes Tune tyme and measure of the song A science swete the reste excelles For melody hir notes among But sirtly I the dame of artes Geometrie of great engine Employde with all hir skilfull partes Therby some greater giftes to winne So laste I lernde Astronomie A lofty arte that paste them all To know by motions of the skye And fired starres what chaunce might fall This pleasaunt arte alured me To many fonde inuentions then For iudgementes of Astrologie Delites the mindes of wisest men So doth the arte Phisiognomie Dependes on iudgment of the face And that of Metoposcopie Which of the forehead telles the grace And Chiromancie by the hande Coniectures of the inwarde minde Eke Geomancie by the lande Doth diuers many farlies finde Augurium eke was vsde of olde By hyrdes of future thinges presagde And many thinges therby they tolde Were skilfull learned wise and agds But Magicke for it seemid fweete And full of wonders made me muse For many feates I thought it meete And pleasaunt for a prince to vse Three kindes there are for natures skill The first they Naturall do name In which by herbes and stones they will Worke wonders thinges are worthy fame The next is Mathematicall Where Magicke workes by nature so That brasen heades make speake it shall Of woode birdes bodies flye and go The thirde Veneficall by right Is named for by it they make The shapes of bodies cbaunge in sight And other formes on them to take What nede I tell what Theurgie is Or Necromancie you despise A diuelishe arte the feenes by this Seme calde and coniurde to arise Of these too much I lerned then By those such secrete artes profeste For of the wise and skilfull men Whome Fame had praisde I gate the beste They promiste for to teache me so The secretes of dame natures skill That I nede neuer taste of woe But alwayes might forsee it still Wherefore enflamed with their loue I brought away the beste I coulde From Greece to Britayne lande to proue What feates for me deuise they woulde Of which were foure Philosophers For passing skill excelde the reste Phisitians and Astronomers In Athens all they were the beste My father harde of my retourne Of my successe in learning there And how the Greecians did adourne My wittes with artes that worthy were He herde likewise what store I brought Of learned Greekes from Aticke soyle And of my laboure learning sought With study trauayle paine and toyle I likewyse herde he builded here Three townes while absente thence was I By Southe he foundid VVinchester By Cast he built Cantorbury By Weste full bigve he builte the laste On hill from waters depe belowe Calde Shaftesbury on rockes full faste It standes and giues to Seas a showe These causde we both might well reioyce He for because I gate such same And I for that by all mennes boyce His factes deserude immortall name What nedes much talke the peres and all The commons eke with one assence Extolde my name especiall Which had my youthe in learning spent I was receaude with triumphes great With pageauntes in eache towne I paste And at the courte my princly seate Was